A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living in quiet, joyous solitude, Thoreau, spent his winter days at the pond, making surveys of its bottom, styding its ic conditions and observing the wild creatures that cmae daily to drink. At nights he would write down his expansive, shimsical, and thought-inspiring philosophies on life.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away...
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truths is better than make-believe...
However mean your life is, meet it and liveit; do not shun it and call it hard names. The fault finder will find faults even in paradise...
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them...
When Thoreau's two years at Walden had ended, he left with no regrets. " I left the woods for as good a reason as why I went here. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one...
Upon returning to his cabin some six years after his experiment, Thoreau lamented that he could still distinguish the path he had worn fom his door to the pond-side. He feared that others " may have fallen into it, and so helped keep it open....
And so with the paths which the mind travels," he pondered. "How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!"
"We do not have to oppose wrong-doing actively, but we have to refuse to engage in it."
"After the first blush of sin cones its indifference and from immoral it becomes as it were immoral."
Principals:
Every person and all things have a part of God
Organic form-As God is in everything>God can be reach through nature and intuitive thinking
Man can commue with all things in nature and moral insight
Optimism>evil is not a separate force>it is the absence of good.
Natural disaster and death are part of the life cycle
Self reliance>every man must use his intuition to commune with divinity though nature
Universal unity>man and nature are part of the whole (oversoul) Refer to the transparent eye and the universal puzzle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living in quiet, joyous solitude, Thoreau, spent his winter days at the pond, making surveys of its bottom, styding its ic conditions and observing the wild creatures that cmae daily to drink. At nights he would write down his expansive, shimsical, and thought-inspiring philosophies on life.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away...
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truths is better than make-believe...
However mean your life is, meet it and liveit; do not shun it and call it hard names. The fault finder will find faults even in paradise...
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them...
When Thoreau's two years at Walden had ended, he left with no regrets. " I left the woods for as good a reason as why I went here. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one...
Upon returning to his cabin some six years after his experiment, Thoreau lamented that he could still distinguish the path he had worn fom his door to the pond-side. He feared that others " may have fallen into it, and so helped keep it open....
And so with the paths which the mind travels," he pondered. "How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!"
"We do not have to oppose wrong-doing actively, but we have to refuse to engage in it."
"After the first blush of sin cones its indifference and from immoral it becomes as it were immoral."
Principals:
Every person and all things have a part of God
Organic form-As God is in everything>God can be reach through nature and intuitive thinking
Man can commue with all things in nature and moral insight
Optimism>evil is not a separate force>it is the absence of good.
Natural disaster and death are part of the life cycle
Self reliance>every man must use his intuition to commune with divinity though nature
Universal unity>man and nature are part of the whole (oversoul) Refer to the transparent eye and the universal puzzle
Transcendentalism - Origins and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - CPSB
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